On July 20, 2018 Bayer announced that it would stop selling Essure, a hysteroscopic sterilization procedure for women. Bayer’s decision to pull Essure from the market comes on heels of an FDA black box warning for the device. A black box warning is the FDA’s highest warning that a drug…
In May, after a three-week trial a Texas jury handed down a verdict that will see Cook Medical paying out over a million dollars to a Texas resident. The jury awarded Jefferey Pavlock, a Houston firefighter, $1.2 million for his claims that his Cook Celect IVC filter caused serious injuries,…
There have been over 100,00 lawsuits filed nationwide against manufacturers of transvaginal mesh devices and nearly half of those lawsuits, more than 48,000, involve the Boston Scientific manufactured mesh. Boston Scientific, a Marlborough based company, is widely recognized as one of the leading gynecological mesh implant device manufacturers in the…
In Phoenix, a woman that was injured by her defective C.R. Bard G2 filter has been awarded $3.6 million. This was the first bellwether multidistrict litigation of its kind regarding a Bard device. The injured party, Sherr-Una Booker, was implanted with a defective C.R. Bard G2 filter in 2007. Booker…
This week, a New Jersey jury has handed down another substantial verdict in the most recent pelvic mesh lawsuit. The product liability verdict states C.R. Bard must pay out compensatory damages totaling $33 million and punitive damages totaling $35 million. The reasoning behind this multi-million dollar verdict was that C.R.…
After a trial that lasted over two months, Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America Inc. have been handed down a verdict that sees the companies now responsible for $37 million in compensatory damages and another $80 million in punitive damages to be paid to a New Jersey man and…
Earlier this month, after a nine-day trial an Indiana federal jury ruled in favor of a women who claimed she was damaged by her pelvic mesh implant. The $35 million jury verdict was handed down after it was ruled that the pelvic mesh implant was negligently designed as well as…
Thousands of individuals have brought, and continue to bring, lawsuits against the manufacturers of defective IVC filters. On March 14th, the first bellwether trial against the manufacturer of defective IVC filters will take place. The results of this bellwether trial will be used by the parties to further gauge how…
Hernia mesh manufacturer C.R. Bard and subsidiary Davol, Inc., are facing a growing number of hernia mesh lawsuits for products that were brought to market through the FDA’s 510(k) program. Plaintiffs in Louisiana and Mississippi are suing Bard and Davol for selling hernia mesh repair products that are incompatible with…
This week in Dallas a jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $247 million to six patients that were negatively affected by the company’s Pinnacle artificial hips. The awarded amount broke down as $79 million in actual damages and $168 million in punitive damages. The patients that brought the…